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• All against Cain: Upstart targeted in GOP debate
  on Oct 19, 2011 in Politics News Republican michele bachmann nuclear waste repository repository at yucca mountain republican presidential contenders and mormon faith.
  By KASIE HUNT, AP Republican presidential contenders attacked upstart Herman Cain‘s economic plan as a tax increase waiting to happen Tuesday night, moving swiftly in a fiery campaign debate to blunt the former businessman’s unlikely rise...
• Israeli soldier ‘very excited’ to go home
  on Oct 18, 2011 in Israel News and gaza strip. army spokesman egyptian tv israeli soldier palestinian prisoners
  An Israeli soldier freed after five years of captivity by Hamas militants says he is “very excited” to be headed home. In an interview with an Egyptian TV station, Schalit says he was told about a week ago that he was being freed. He s...
• Obama seeks action on jobs bill pieces this week
  on Oct 17, 2011 in News Barak Obama Jobs julie pace democratic allies appropriations bills senate republicans and white house spokesman.
  By JULIE PACE, AP President Barack Obama will urge Congress to get to work this week on passing pieces of his larger, now-defunct jobs bill during a three-day bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia, two southern states that could be critical to...
• APNewsBreak: US drops keeping troops in Iraq
  on Oct 16, 2011 in Iraq War and withdrawal deadline. immunity from prosecution military lives pentagon spokesman training iraqi security forces
   By LARA JAKES and REBECCA SANTANA, AP The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight...
• Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan Gain’s Big-Name Backers
  on Oct 15, 2011 in Politics News Republican david a patten chris chocola economic guru pizza magnate and good starting point.
  By: Martin Gould and David A. Patten Herman Cain’s catchy 9-9-9 tax overhaul system is gathering major supporters as the former pizza magnate consolidates his position at the top of the Republican field in the race for the White House. House budget...
• Obama, Lee to pitch trade deal in Michigan
  on Oct 14, 2011 in Auto Industry Barak Obama Jobs News and korea trade. barack obama charles dharapak compact buick south korean president
  By JIM KUHNHENN, AP Fri Oct 14, 4:15 AM EDT President Barack Obama and South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak are promoting a new trade deal by visiting an auto plant in Michigan, a state battered by Asian car imports, in a rare joint appearanc...
• Warren Buffett brings tax fight to supercommittee
  on Oct 13, 2011 in Economics News and tom harkin. federal tax returns james inhofe public works committee warren buffett
  By ALAN FRAM, AP Warren Buffett is bringing his fight to raise taxes on the super-wealthy to Congress’ deficit-reduction supercommittee. In an exchange of letters between the billionaire investor and a Republican congressman that Buffett sent...
• Plot to kill ambassador unraveled on SW border
  on Oct 12, 2011 in Iran Mexico News Terrorism and nedra pickler. corpus christi caller times justice department officials mexican drug cartel williamson county jail
    By NEDRA PICKLER, AP The unraveling of an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States came from a surprising place — the front lines of the drug war along the Mexican border. And like a Hollywood thriller, the murder-f...
• Senate GOP poised to scuttle Obama’s jobs plan
  on Oct 11, 2011 in Barak Obama Democrats News Politics Republican and barack obama. senate minority leader senate minority leader mitch mcconnell senate minority whip social security payroll
  By ANDREW TAYLOR, AP   President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, facing a critical test in the Senate, appears likely to fail because Republicans oppose its spending components and its tax surcharge on millionaires. Obama has been waging a camp...
• SPIN METER: Obama disconnects rhetoric, reality
  on Oct 10, 2011 in Barak Obama Democrats News Politics Republican and political reality. congress act indivi s sales sales pitch
    By ERICA WERNER, AP In President Barack Obama’s sales pitch for his jobs bill, there are two versions of reality: The one in his speeches and the one actually unfolding in Washington. When Obama accuses Republicans of standing in the way...

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